With Joe being in Texas veiwing gay films such as "Saving Ryan's Privates" and "Freeing Chad's Willy", it is my duty to keep the Caption Challenge going so you guys don't lose focus. I'll make sure Joe includes these points on his blog. Here goes!!

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How to play:

It's simple, really. Look at the sports-related pictures above, and give us your funniest caption for any or all of them. You can write as many captions for each as you would like.

The challenge runs daily, Monday-Thursday. Each day's competition will usually be posted by noon ET, and will usually end around 11 p.m. ET. On Monday and Wednesday, Community member ktopp24 will be the judge. On Tuesday and Thursday, I'll run the show. If one of the judges decide that your caption is the funniest or most clever submitted for that picture, it will be declared a winner.

Winning captions will be announced when that day's challenge ends. There will be one winner for each picture, and also one winner for the person who can string together the 5 best captions all with the same theme.

You will be awarded one point for each winning caption that you post. You will see a running tally on the scoreboard, which will be posted at the beginning and end of each day. At the end of each month a champion is declared, and we shower that user in praise and adulation! We add his screenname to the Wall-O-Fame, and then we start everyone's score back at zero.

Well, Joe is claiming that he has "Meetings" today and can't get the contest going. Yeah sure he does. I think that's office code for "I have the hershey squirts and I'm to embarrassed to admit it.". Yeah, I think that's it. Well, he says that if I do a Lazy Joe today he'll count these points in his blog. So go for it!!

Well, with Joe being on vacation until next week, I've made the managerial decision to keep the contest going. Joe obviously would make the final decision but I will do my best to have him use these scores in his August contest. Let's keep the party rollin'!!!

OK boys, here you go. Duke it out for the July caption contest. Remember that this blog will stay up all weekend and I will score the winners on Sunday evening sometime. Everybody can put captions out there but ONLY BuccinGator and Mr. Mo-Chi can score points. Between those 2, whoever scores at least 2 points will be declared the July caption contest winner on Shuless Joe's blog. FYI, there will no "Theme point", only single captions. Good luck!!!

Ok guys, here it is, the Lazy Joe contest is up and ready for dismantling. Don't forget about the theme and challenge points!!!

Challenge point: Best theme talking like Big Gay Al from South Park

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May scoreboard

1) River_Rat - 112) Buccingator- 53) D2Moo - 44) Dutch Boy - 2

Previous winners:

River_Rat (November '09, December '09, January '10, April '10)BuccinGator (February '10 - after a re-count, we were unable to determine a true champion. So we just gave it to Buc out of pity)D2Moo (March '10)